Guidelines for Hypertension in the Elderly. 1999 Revised Version.

the USA and Europe are fundamentally for Caucasians. Although these guidelines provide a detailed summary of extensive results on hypertension studies throughout the world, and thus should also be useful for the control and treatment of hypertension in Japan, their applicability to Japanese hypertensive patients might be somewhat limited by differences in genetic and social background. To address this problem, the present work constitutes